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Of course they do, and with all due respect to ALL philosophers. Nevertheless Popper did nail the issue neatly, and understood the process of research...

What an incredibly ignorant thing to say.. You should study these matters before making a fool of yourself.

:100: Like any general law, it is unverifiable, which is why logical positivism failed and gave way to Popper's formulation of the falsifiability prin...

Everytime I read "verification" on this thread I replace it mentally by "falsification". Works better I think.

I'm the son of rage and love The Jesus of suburbia The bible of none of the above On a steady diet of soda pop and ritalin... No one ever died for my ...

Sorry, didn't see that in time. I wish Brexit could be solved with music. You Brits have given the world tons of great musicians and songs. The Beatle...

For one thing, you are a very complex and unique structure. I don't see you as a token at all, and I doubt that "token identity" is a useful concept t...

Identity is a rather complex question and approaching it through reductionism is not useful, i believe. We living organisms are ships of Theseus, as a...

Indeed I am not interested in moot discussions, but out of curiosity, who is is interested in token sameness, and why?

Are you trying to be thick? If yes, you're doing well. Before they get assigned this glass and not another and started using it, they couldn't care le...

They are of course two different glasses in terms of their material constituents and space occupied but people don't actually care for such considerat...

Indeed, but they are all identical (isotopes aside) in terms of structure. My name is actually Olivier, not Oliver. If they haven't improved on the de...

Only types are definable though, tokens are not. You cannot define THAT particular atom of hydrogen. For any practical intent and purpose, it is the e...

But it is not called a mirror or a lamp anymore, strangely enough... Things are not defined by their constituents, therefore, but by their structure a...

Why don't you answer some of my questions first. What is the difference between a wreck and a functional ship, if not structure?

I guess it all depends on what you would call the "same" ship. What does it take in your definition, for a ship to be "the same"? In my definition, st...

You only care about these sorts of questions because you define reality and realism as premised on the 'stuff' objects are made of. But your definitio...

It doesn't really matter, other than in your mind experiment. They are the same model, bhave the same way; not distinguishable. Who cares which is whi...

It doesn't actually matter, as long as it floats the same way it's functionally the same boat. You can call it a copy of the same structure if you wan...

This is in fact demonstrably not true. There is a mind-independent feature of the boat that remains the same throughout the story: its structure. The ...

Yes, the double slit experiment works with macromolecules. Maybe it would work with human beings thrown to crash into a screen too, for all we know.

As long as it's in front of her and she can keep it there, yes, it becomes functionally different by way of being meant for her use and not yours, alt...

Poor me! I think it is recognition-transcendent but not bivalent. Am I a semi-realist? Matter always takes a form, so structures are important charact...

I disagree. People are real. If one is realist about structures, then people can realistically be understood as semi-permanent mind-independent struct...

Yes, but they are the same model of ship and one could be hard pressed to distinguish one from the other. My point is that structures are something we...

Interesting discussion. You may wish to consider the notion of system or structure as well. Structures have objective reality. It is the same ship bec...

Yes. In fact spreading manufactured doubt in such a time is criminal. It kills people, and I dare say our good friend @"Isaac" here is close to murder...

So you're focusing on points of disagreement, leaving aside the points where there is broad agreement because there's nothing to discuss in them? Stil...

You play hard to please. The data is never good enough for you.

When people speak of risk-based decision making, they are not talking of perfect estimates of risks across the whole demographic. They are speaking of...

So your question was rhetorical. Drumroll. It still manifests bad faith. Because you are a scientist, you must know that no measurement can be perfect...

People marking where they stand, for others to know. I don't see a problem.

You don't even understand what you are saying, and you don't understand what I am saying either.

I do. You are asking others to do your homework for you. But nobody cares about you enough to give you these numbers...

Why? Don't you disagree all the time with me here? Ask yourself where does this compulsion to disagree come from.

I trust nobody is stoping you from trying to calculate your individual risk. Don't ask others to calculate it for you though. We don't give a rat's as...

People here don't want to agree, in principle. Even when they agree with you, they will find something to disagree with. It's the opposite of your usu...

As I said, I'm a "gentleman of fortune" (i.e. a pirate). We go by different rules.

A bit of unrealistic goal. I think Sartre said somewhere that the human condition involves making decisions based on insufficient information.

Minor means child in this context: a person less than 18 years old.

That is indeed correct and I understand it is at least one of the 'traditional' readings. Not all propositions are necessarily decidable and we have g...

That's probably a fair point. The SEP is not very clear on this but I trust you. Let me start by noting a residual ambiguity here. I can see two very ...

Only in the case of children. And note also the the whole para starts with a mention of the kid's own consent, given legal status here right off the b...

Human - The Pretenders I play a good game But not as good as you I can be a little cold but you can be so cruel I'm not made of brick I'm not made of ...

Why yes, a more reasoned attention is precisely what I am trying to provide here, and in other discussions I may have in society. I often fail at it b...

I'm not even sure that would be constitutional in France.

I didn't quote the whole article. It's rather long and detailed. The section on minors says the following: The consent of the minor or adult under gua...

Not all sentences have a clear meaning, not all sentences are about some state of affairs, and not all sentences are proposed as true. So the Fitch is...

Reasonably and realistically, I will probably get COVID at some point, and I hope that being vaccinated will reduce the impact. And I'm not going to g...

Their parents can consent.